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This morning Peru led the way in South America with the first Law for Climate Change being officially signed by Martin Vizcarra in the government palace. The new law, unanimously approved by Congress in the middle of March, aims to reduce the amount of carbon emissions and develop strategies to ...
Alabama Commerce Secretary Greg Canfield is leading a team of state business leaders on a trade mission in South America this week, aiming to forge new relationships and find new markets for their goods and services. The mission to Argentina and Ecuador features a wide variety of the state's business ...

It was the first class of U-boats designed to sail submerged for a prolonged period of time and had a range which allowed it to sail non-stop to South America. The U-3523 was thought to have been sunk by a British B24 Liberator attack on May 6, 1945, but the inability to locate the wreck fuelled reports that it ...
Let Hector Ayala's Serie Americana written for guitarist David Russell take you on a tour of South America today, with stops in Bolivia, Argentina and Peru. Tags: classical music highlights · TweetShareGoogle+Email · NPR · BBC · Public Radio International · American Public Media · Public Radio Exchange ...
Get ready for streetside tango, sizzling grills and a chance to hike the mighty Andes. If it's about time to say "hola" to Argentina then Air New Zealand has you covered with cheap flights to Buenos Aires. Return airfares start with Gold Coast for $1,030, Melbourne for $1,044, Adelaide for $1047, Sydney for ...
Ecuadorean tuna fishermen's association Cooperativa Caneros de Manta has become the first such South American association to join the International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF). Based in Manta, Ecuador, Cooperativa was established in 2011 to "safeguard the region's traditional pole-and-line ...

The Illinois Farm Bureau group with its host farm family. Alex Utida, second from left, his mother, fourth from left, and his uncle, far right. In the background, workers are harvesting approximately 12,000 acres of soybeans and planting a second crop of cotton and corn near Campo Novo do Parecis, in Mato ...
American Airlines announced Tuesday it is continuing the company's growth in Mexico and Latin America by adding four new destinations starting next winter. The carrier's biggest additions are coming to South America, where American is adding routes to three new cities, including Georgetown, Guyana ...
'Locally-sourced' European meat may be responsible for deforestation in parts of South America, an NGO has claimed. Satellite images taken from Google Earth Engine show how soy production for animal feed is destroying South American rain forests. In a report, NGO Mighty said the European meat ...
Cape Town businesses are hopeful that a trade mission to Columbia last week would result in more exports to the South American country. During the visit‚ Wesgro's Trade Unit and Bogota Chamber of Commerce signed a memorandum of understanding with a view to fostering economic links between the ...
Shipbroker Simpson Spence Young (SSY) is to open its first office in South America, as it plans fresh expansion in its dry cargo department. SSY partner and dry cargo head Stanko Jekov told TradeWinds the new office will open in Brazil's biggest city, Sao Paulo, in May or June and be headed by Brazilian ...
The Fijian Warriors team will tour South America in early June. This was confirmed last night by Fiji Rugby Union chief executive officer John O'Connor. “The Fijian Warriors team will travel to Uruguay,” he said. The Warriors are going to take on Argentina A, Uruguay and Italy A. The Senirusi Seruvakula ...
A former British special forces solder has set a new record for riding the length of South America, smashing the previous record by 10 days. Dean Stott completed the journey on Wednesday, March 21, setting a new Guinness World Record of 48 days and 54 minutes having started on February 1.
Fifth Circuit Solicitor Dan Johnson shifted $10,000 from his office's drug seizure account to a credit card he used for travel and hotels in South America, a Post and Courier analysis of his office's spending records shows. Over the years, Johnson's office amassed some $300,000 from the proceeds of drug ...
Fifth Circuit Solicitor Dan Johnson shifted $10,000 from his office's drug seizure account to a credit card he used for travel and hotels in South America, a new Post and Courier analysis of his office's spending records shows. Over the years, Johnson's office amassed some $90,000 from the proceeds of drug ...
MONTEVIDEO – International experts on homicide will discuss levels of violent crime in South America during a four-day conference in Montevideo, the head of ... “Although there are no official figures, it is estimated that a bit more than 100,000 homicides occur each year in the 12 countries that make up South America,” he ...
Light experts SloanLED have announced expansion plans to address increased demand in Mexico, and Central and South America. The expansion is driven by customer growth in the petroleum, hospitality and retail signage markets. With a global support network encompassing North America, Europe, ...

Growing indigenous demand means that Central and South America are on the brink of becoming net importers of oil and gas ... Subscriber-Only Content. BNamericas develops thousands of news articles, analyses and features every month, always concentrating on how to make or save money in Latin ...
Brazil is among Croatia's traditionally most important trade partners in South America but despite its being the biggest South American economy, the potential for economic cooperation has not been adequately used, the president said. One of Croatia's best IT companies, Infobip, has opened an office in ...
When the UCI Para cycling Track World Championships officially open on Thursday (22 March), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, it will be the first time the event is held in South America and it marks the first time since the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games that a World Championships takes place at the ...
None of that evidence has stood up to much scrutiny, though—except for one fact: sweet potatoes, a crop native to Central and South America, had already firmly taken root in the islands of Polynesia by the time Europeans arrived. It seemed logical that someone must have carried them across the Pacific.
“We're creating a world-class customer experience and as the largest U.S. carrier in Mexico and South America, we are committed to offering more choices with the best schedules for our customers in the region,” said Vasu Raja, vice president, Network and Schedule Planning. “As we look to strengthen our ...
SANTIAGO – Chileans are the happiest among all their bordering nations, a 2018 United Nations report on happiness has revealed. The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network's annual survey report ranked Chile on the 25th spot among 156 countries. The ranking was based on six indicators: ...
“I can't believe how much it was like Nebraska,” Gibbon farmer Shane Bendfeldt said about visiting some of South America's farm country. “Their farmers face the same issues we do. … We're probably 10 years ahead of them tech-wise.” “The more we interacted with them, we saw how challenging it was for ...


 

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